THIS week's newspaper has a picture of four Fylde Councillors standing in the middle of a yard full of rubbish.

Who dumped the rubbish if it wasn't their people?

Who should get it cleaned up if not them?

It looks to me as though they don't care about our gardens.

One of them even said the land is of no use to the park. He is wrong.

The Ashton Institute was a much-needed club for our young people, and it helped keep them occupied.

Our own son and his friends went there when there were snooker tables and soft drinks and guidance from older folk about right and wrong.

Councillors like these are the ones that let is close and put youngsters back on the streets.

Now they want to sell the land and put another block of flats up to get money to do more 'regeneration' in the Square.

We don't want any more domes, and no one I know wants more flats built either.

Selling-off the Institute and other parts of Ashton Gardens is just storing-up trouble for the future.

Instead of putting up a new building on the site of Ashton Theatre, why doesn't the council buy the old bingo club/casino building in front of the Institute and adapt it as a community centre?

The lottery could pay for this work and it could link into the Institute from the back

They are only separated by about six inches. It is such an obvious thing to do you would have thought our councillors would have thought of it before now.

Eileen Harvey, Sandhurst Ave, St Annes